閱讀理解

  Mike Ingram had been a guard on the Ohio State football team in the late 1950s.I believe he may have been captain in his senior year.He is a tough-looking guy, a hero in Columbus, a brave fighter in a red-and-gray uniform.

  One holiday season Jack and I had been at the F & R Lazarus department store downtown, and we saw, carrying a tall pile of boxes, someone who clearly was working in the Lazarus stockroom(倉(cāng)庫(kù)).It was Mike Ingram, post-Ohio State football player.

  We stared-how could we help it?And Mike Ingram stopped in his track, looked right back at us, and said, with bite in his tone:“Yeah, it’s me.”Meaning:Go ahead and stare if you must.

  Couldn’t really blame him.There was nothing wrong with what he was doing-he was earning some money in the stockroom.But he was out in the world now, he wasn’t where he had been when everything was bathed in sunlight; he was in Ohio Stadium, hearing the supporting shouts from 78,000 people who loved him and his teammates.He had moved past that first of life’s roles, as everyone does.It was his misfortune to have been famous very early; there must have been dozens and dozens of men in their twenties working in the Lazarus stockroom, but Mike Ingram was the one sure to attract curious passers, because he was no longer who he was supposed to be.

(1)

When the writer met him in Lazarus, Mike was a ________.

[  ]

A.

salesman

B.

manager

C.

laborer

D.

customer

(2)

By saying“how could we help it?”the writer means that ________.

[  ]

A.

he and his friend just can’t force themselves not to look at Mike

B.

he wonders whether he and his friend can help Mike

C.

he and his friend can’t stop looking at each other

D.

he and his friend can do nothing to stop Mike carrying the boxes

(3)

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

Mike used to be very popular when he played in the Ohio State football team.

B.

Many other people would stare at Mike like the writer when they run into him.

C.

Working as an ordinary worker, according to the writer, is Mike’s misfortune.

D.

Some people accept what life gives them.

(4)

We can infer from the passage that when Mike was stared at, he looked ________.

[  ]

A.

nice

B.

worried

C.

shy

D.

unhappy

答案:1.C;2.A;3.C;4.D;
練習(xí)冊(cè)系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源: 題型:053

閱讀理解

A

  Annie Dakley Mozee was only nine when she took her father' s big kentucky rifle (步槍) into woods to hunt food. Her father was dead, and the family was poor and hungry.

  When she found that she could shoot squirrels and rabbits by aiming the rifle carefully, a new life began for her. She began earning money by selling game to Mr Frost, who owned a hotel in a nearby town.

  Then Annie began to try for a trick shot(高明的射手) ,everyone heard of her skill with a rifle .

  When she was fifteen, Mr Frost set up a shooting match between her and a famous marksman (神槍手) . And finally, Annie won the match by one point. She was on her way to becoming a world -famous sharp shooter (一等射手) . She now called herself Annie Oakley .

1.Annie first used her rifle to ________.

[  ]

A.protect herself

B.shoot birds

C.make her living by hunting

D.be fond of shooting.

2.A new life began for Annie when she ________.

[  ]

A.met a famous marksman.

B.met Mr Frost.

C.turned strick shot.

D.found out that she could shoot.

3.Annie Oakley became famous because ________.

[  ]

A.the government gave her a medal of sharp shooter.

B.she beat a famous marksman.

C.she was praised for a first - class shot.

D.she turned big- game hunter.

4.The under lined word “game” of the selection means ________.

[  ]

A.form a play.

B.sports and exercise outdoors.

C.food fed to poultry(家禽) .

D.a(chǎn)nimals and birds hunted for food.

5.The best title for this selection is ________.

[  ]

A.How Annie Oakley Got Her Start .

B.The Shooting Match.

C.The Girl's Way To A Shot.

D.How To Shoot Game.

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:黃岡重點(diǎn)作業(yè) 高一英語(yǔ)(下) 題型:050

閱讀理解:

  In Europe, men do not usually wear skirts. But the Scottish national clothing for men is a kind of skirt. It is called a kilt. The Scottish like to be different. They are also proud of their country and its history, and they feel that the kilt is part of that history. That's why the men still wear kilts at traditional (傳統(tǒng)的) dances and on national holidays. They believe they are wearing the same clothes that Scottish men always used to wear.

  That's what they believe. However, kilts are not really so old. Before 1730, Scottish men wore a long shirt and blanket around their shoulders. These clothes got in the way when the men started to work in factories. So, in 1730 a factory owner changed the blanket into a skirt; the kilt. That's how the first kilt was made.

  Then, in the late 1700s Scottish soldiers in the British Army began to wear kilts. One reason for this was national sentiment ( = feelings) . The Scottish soldiers wanted to be different from the English soldiers. The British Army probably had a different reason. A Scottish soldier in a kilt was always easy to find! The Scottish soldier fought very hard and became famous. The kilt was part of the fame, and in the early 1800s men all around Scotland began to wear kilts.

  These kilts had colorful stripes (條紋) going up and down and across. In the 1700s and early 1800s, the color of the stripes had no special meaning. Men sometimes owned kilts in several different colors. But later the colors became important to the Scottish families. By about 1850, most families had special colors for their kilts. For example, men from the Campbell family had kilts with green, yellow and blue stripes. Scottish people often believe that the colors of the kilts are part of their family history. In fact, each family just chose the color they liked best.

  This is not the story you will hear today if you are in Scotland. Most Scottish people still believe that kilts are as old as Scotland and that the colors are as old as the Scottish families. Sometimes feelings are stronger than facts!

1.This text is mainly about ________.

A.soldiers' clothes in Britain
B.the history of Scotland
C.a(chǎn) special kind of skirt
D.Scottish families

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.The English soldiers were the first to wear kilts.

B.It was hard then to tell the Scottish soldiers from the English ones apart from the clothes.

C.Colors were specially designed in the first kilts.

D.The factory owner made the first kilt from long shirts to make his workers different from others.

3.Scottish soldiers were dressed in kilts partly because of ________.

A.the colors
B.the weather
C.national sentiment
D.the design

4.The colors of the kilts are ________.

[  ]

A.not part of the Scottish family history

B.older than the Scottish family history

C.for the Campbell family only

D.mainly green, yellow and blue

5.From the last paragraph we can infer that ________.

[  ]

A.the European people are full of strong feelings

B.there are no stories about kilts in Scotland today

C.the British like to do things on feelings, not on facts

D.the Scottish prefer to keep their tradition rather than believe the fact

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:101網(wǎng)校同步練習(xí) 高二英語(yǔ) 人民教育出版社(新課標(biāo)A 2002-3年初審?fù)ㄟ^(guò)) 人教版 題型:050

閱讀理解:

  Suppose we built a robot(機(jī)器人)to explore the planet Mars.We provide the robot with seeing detectors(探測(cè)器)to keep it away from danger.It is powered entirely by the sun.Should we program the robot to be equally active at all times?No.The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any.So we would probably program it to stop its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning.

  According to the evolutionary(進(jìn)化的)theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason.The theory does not deny(否認(rèn))that sleep provides some important restorative functions(恢復(fù)功能).It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous.However, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us.So we sleep well when we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent.

  The evolutionary theory explains the differences in sleep among creatures.Why do eats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little?Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do.But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep.Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value.Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival(生存)depends on their ability to run away from attackers.

(1)

The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us ________.

[  ]

A.

the differences between robots and men

B.

the reason why men need to sleep

C.

about the need for robots to save power

D.

about the danger of men working at night

(2)

Evolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help him ________.

[  ]

A.

keep up a regular pattern of life

B.

prevent trouble that comes looking for him

C.

avoid danger and inefficient labour

D.

restore his bodily functions

(3)

According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we ________.

[  ]

A.

are worrying about our safety

B.

are overworked

C.

are in a tent

D.

are away from home

(4)

Cats sleep much more than horses do partly because cats ________.

[  ]

A.

need more time for restoration

B.

are unlikely to be attackers

C.

axe more active than homes when they are awake

D.

spend less time eating to get enough energy

(5)

Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?

[  ]

A.

Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking.

B.

The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory.

C.

Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.

D.

The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:101網(wǎng)校同步練習(xí) 高三英語(yǔ) 人民教育出版社(新課標(biāo)A 2002-3年初審) 人教版 題型:050

閱讀理解:

  Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains.Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed:where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore.In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way.So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.

  We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water.As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless.After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream.In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream.

  As for water, there was a choice:we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst.We drank the water.Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water.In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.

  One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us.We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time:we might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again.

(1)

What they could see in the boat was only ________.

[  ]

A.

high wall

B.

villagers from time to time

C.

vast land

D.

heavy woods

(2)

They couldn’t land because ________.

[  ]

A.

the mud on the shore was too soft

B.

the forest was too thick to let them go through

C.

they could not find the mark on the map

D.

they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest.

(3)

The passage infers that the forest was ________.

[  ]

A.

rich of fruits and animals to be served as food

B.

not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches

C.

full of various dangerous beings

D.

full of ancient trees

(4)

The most proper title for this passage might be ________.

[  ]

A.

Escape

B.

Scenes of a River

C.

How to Survive on a boat

D.

A New Experience

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源:江西省師大附中2011屆高三第三次模擬考試英語(yǔ)試題 題型:050

閱讀理解:

  After battling hard times and danger for over nine months, British teenager Mike Perham made history last month as the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

  The 17-year-old made the record after he cleared the Panama Canal and then sailed through the Caribbean and got home across the Atlantic.

  Mike is only three months younger than Zac Sunderland, the 17-year-old American boy who had taken the crown as the youngest solo around-the-world sailor in July.

  The two youngsters met in Cape Town in South Africa as they crossed the globe in different directions.Mike insisted they were not rivals(競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手).“No.It's two teenagers going out there, living their dream and having the adventure of a lifetime,” he said.

  Mike may be young, but he is no stranger to sailing adventures.He picked up the hobby at the age of 6 when his father took him out in a small boat on a local lake.Father and son sailed separate boats across the Atlantic when Mike was 14, making him the youngest person to cross that ocean solo.That record gave him the taste for this even greater challenge.

  On the recent journey, the scariest moment for Mike came when his sailboat was hit by storms in the southern Indian Ocean.

  “We were picked up by what felt like a 60-foot wave and threw down on our side at 90 degrees,” he said.

  “It felt like I was going right over.Stuff was flying around and I just thought ‘Oh no'.”

  At other times, he had to dive into the Pacific and fix problems.He tied himself to the boat, jumped into the water and went to work with a knife in 30-second dives underneath the boat to cut a rope away.

  Mike said he felt proud that he made his dream come true.“You've got to have confidence in yourself that you will make it,” he said.

(1)

What's the main idea of the passage?

[  ]

A.

A British teenager became the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

B.

How a British teenager developed his sailing hobby.

C.

A British teenager's brave experience.

D.

A British teenager's confidence.

(2)

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

[  ]

A.

Mike Perham crossed the Panama Canal.

B.

Mike and Zac took the crown as the youngest solo around-the-world sailor at the same age.

C.

The two youngsters crossed the globe in different directions.

D.

Mike was never frightened during the sailing.

(3)

What does the underlined word “taste” in the fifth paragraph mean?

[  ]

A.

Flavor.

B.

Preference.

C.

Experience.

D.

Ability.

(4)

What can we infer from the passage?

[  ]

A.

Both Mike and Zac had adventured spirits.

B.

Mike is older than Zac.

C.

They both are brave but they have different goals.

D.

Mike took up the hobby of sailing adventures at 14.

(5)

What did Mike believe in?

[  ]

A.

Having confidence in yourself will make you successful.

B.

Braveness is important in sailing.

C.

One should pick up a hobby as a child.

D.

Pride goes before a fall.

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊(cè)答案